I've seen the light. The moment I saw who the final boss of Shadow of the Erdtree was, I had an epiphany. Miyazaki truly is a hack, a horrible fanfiction-tier writer and a harbinger of decline. Elden Ring, in spite of its breadth of content, is the worst thing him and his team have ever made, and the DLC didn't do anything to fix the flaws of the base game, nor shake up the formula whatsoever.